Li Zhi, don't be a coward

Chapter 1024
The tied-up Goguryeo man knelt in front of Xue Na. He tried to stand up, but his head was pinned down by two of his subordinates. The man had no choice but to curse.

With such a big commotion, all the villagers in the village came out.

It is said to be "the whole village", but in fact there are only a dozen old and weak women and children in total. Everyone's face is full of fear and anger, pointing at Xue Na and others and shouting loudly, um, they can't understand a word.

"Boss, these villagers are too noisy, do you want to kill them all?" one of his subordinates asked in a harsh voice.

Xue Na hadn't expressed his opinion yet, but the bound man was shocked. When he looked up at Xue Na, there was anger in his eyes.

Xue Na was amazed and said happily, "Can you understand human speech?"

The man bowed his head and remained silent.

Xue Na looked at him carefully for a moment, and said with certainty: "That's right, you can understand people's language, maybe you can still speak it? Now that you've revealed the truth, please confess quickly, or the whole village will suffer."

The villagers are obviously the weak point of the man, so the man had to speak, with a very blunt Central Plains accent, a bit like a northern dialect.

"I can understand...your words. Five years ago, I smuggled food with merchants from the Tang Kingdom, so I learned your words."

Xue Na nodded. This sentence is the truth. In the 19th year of Zhenguan, Taizong conquered Goguryeo.

From that year on, Datang adopted a policy of harassing and harassing poor enemies against Goguryeo.

The general idea is to keep sending soldiers and horses to harass the border of Goguryeo, plunder their population, rob their property, burn their farmland and so on.

As a result, Goguryeo's national strength was in a slump, and it was impossible to recuperate. The productivity of the people was deteriorating, the grain harvest was getting smaller and smaller, the population was getting worse every year, and the whole country was getting poorer and poorer.

This policy of harassing and harassing the poor was maintained until the Tang-Luo allied forces destroyed Baekje, adding up to more than ten years.

The common people will not starve to death, they are all trying to find a way. After 19 years from Zhenguan, there are always merchants and civilians secretly doing business on the border between Datang and Goguryeo, and they exchange valuable things or barter for food from Datang merchants .

The man in front of him said that he had contacted the merchants of Datang and bought and sold grain, but Xue Na didn't doubt it.

This kind of shady business on the border is actually being done secretly by both countries. The scale is not large, and the government is not interested in investigating it.

Xue Na looked at the leather armor on the man's body, and said with great interest: "You are from the Goguryeo army? Ordinary soldiers can't wear leather armor. It seems that you are still a military officer?"

The man was silent, gritted his teeth and refused to say another word.

Xue Na was not in a hurry, and looked back and forth among the dozen or so villagers.

If this guy can speak up, it means that these villagers are his weakness, then the most likely thing is that there are his relatives in the villagers.

With the meat ticket in hand, are you afraid that he will not give in?
So Xue Na was not in a hurry at all, and looked at the man calmly, his unkind eyes wandering back and forth on the villagers from time to time.

The silent and invisible pressure finally made the man sweat coldly on his forehead. After a long time, the man finally spoke.

With this opening, the man confessed very happily, maybe he already knew that he could not resist, the life and death of his relatives were only in his mind, if he did not surrender to the Tang people in front of him, the whole village would die, including his relatives.

After some questions and answers with Xue Na, Xue Na finally knew the origin of the man's identity.

The man's name is "Mo Enjun", and his name looks like a Han, but he is actually a Goguryeo with pure blood.If you go to the slave auction, it is definitely worth more than Chuan Chuan Er.

Mo Enjun joined the Goguryeo army three years ago and was forcibly conscripted into it. He was originally working at home with peace of mind. Later, Goguryeo might have sensed that the Tang Dynasty was about to attack, so the lord of Goguryeo ordered the whole country to recruit troops and expand the army.

In this way, Mo Enjun was forcibly drawn into the army.

Because Mo Enjun was born burly and had a lot of strength in farming all the year round, he quickly became a low-level military officer in the army, which is roughly equivalent to the Tang Army's Shichang Huochang or something.

Later, Mo Enjun made a contribution in a battle against a small Tang army's raid on the border, so he was promoted again and was transferred to the Pyongyang Garrison as a battalion general, commanding hundreds of people under his command.

This time, Li Qinzai's troops attacked Goguryeo from the southern front, and the soldiers pointed directly at the capital Pyongyang.

Mo Enjun's unit was one of the troops transferred to the southern front. After the Koguryo army stationed at the border, Mo Enjun found that the station was only tens of miles away from his hometown.

Having not been home for many years, he was moved and asked the general in the army for a day's leave. He rushed home to visit his relatives, and brought some food and allowances for the family.

Unexpectedly, they ran into Xue Na and his party by accident.

Ever since Xue Na and others entered the village, Mo Enjun felt bad and hid in the house and did not dare to come out. Later, when he heard Xue Ne's "Abaaaba" gesticulating indiscriminately, Mo Enjun even realized that this group of people must It was a spy sent by Tang Jun, so he broke open the door and escaped.

However, it still fell into Xue Ne's hands in the end.

After hearing this, Xue Na's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help rubbing his hands.

A battalion general in the Goguryeo garrison, he can be regarded as a fish no matter how big or small.

Take him back to ask for credit... I'm afraid the credit is not enough, a battalion general is too small, and Li Qinzai doesn't even bother to talk to him.

Now that he has started, he might as well make it bigger. Xue Na's main reason is that he doesn't want to waste his hard work for two days. If he doesn't earn a lot of credit and go back, he will feel that he is losing money.

Staring at Mo Enjun and laughing, that weird and weird smile made Mo Enjun's whole body goosebumps.

After a few sinister laughs, Xue Na walked up to Mo Enjun, lowered his voice and said viciously: "General Mo, you don't want your relatives to have trouble, do you?"

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Goguryeo and Silla border.

In the camp of the Tang army, the drums are rumbling.

After a 5000-man striker in Goguryeo was annihilated, it attracted the attention of the Goguryeo commander.

The two armies faced each other on the border for three days. During these three days, the two armies did not confront each other, but the scouts on both sides suffered a lot of casualties.

Go out to the camp to explore the way, and do it when you encounter it, and the outcome is evenly divided.

The scouts belonged to the lightly armed army and were not equipped with three-eyed guns.

Originally it was just to spy on the enemy, the important thing is to cover your tracks quietly, if you meet and fire a gun, wouldn't it be beating gongs and drums to tell the enemy that I'm here to spy on your movements, please put yourself in a good position and let me see enough.

In desperation, Tang Jun's scouts suffered a lot of casualties in the past few days. About 200 people have been buried in this foreign land.

There were many casualties, but the scouts got a lot of news.

First of all, Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, has increased its troops to the southern border. There were originally more than 2 troops, but another [-] were added yesterday.

Li Qinzai's troops suddenly had [-] more enemies.

(End of this chapter)